Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-16
BREAKING THE RUM POWER.
Address of Miss Frances Willard, De.
livered at Nashville, Tenn.

The following is synopsis of the annual
address of Miss Frances f. Willard, Presi-
dent of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, which was read at the
Nashville meeting:
Forty States and Territories have sent
four hundred representatives to the metrop-
oils of Southern education. The Northern
home keepers have crossed Mason and
Dixon's line to clasp hands with their sis
ters. No surer token that We are one ma
ton has been given since 1864.
"There are not enough anti saloon Re-
publicans at the North to carry prohibition
in single State that is now struggling to
secure it, nor enough anti-saloon Demo-
Gratis at the South as has been proved in
this memorable year of our constitutional
defeats, but there are enough temperance
men in both to take possession of the Gov
eminent and give us national prohibition
in the party of the near future, which is to
be the party of God. Women should use
their utmost influence, and wherever they
have the school ballot they should use that
to engraft the kindergarten upon the public
school.
eve must work out the manifest destiny
OF the municipal ballot for women as
means of enforcing prohibitoly law and
emphasize more strongly than before the
national amendment which shall remove all
legal disabilities from the daughters of the
republic. l believe also that the Prohi-
bition party should strongly state as it's
ultimate aim two amendments to the ma
tional Constitution first calling for
universal prohibition. the second enfan-
chising the women; and that it should
carefully study the platforms of the labor
reformers, both knights of Labor and
Changers, that it may incorporate the prin-
ciples Of arbitration and cooperation into
its own, with any others that seem to be
based upon Christian ethics and Christian
brotherhood.
The Woman's Temperance Publication
Association last year published 30,O0O,O00
pages, this year over 50,0O0,0O0. Our pub
fishing corps includes seventy-tive names,
of the Onion Signal for the year were
1.634, 200 copies, or an average of 81 ,423
copies per week. Our tour periodicals
have combined circulation of over 5O,-
600 copies, and we have printed over 3d.
100000 pages of Temperance literature dur
ing the year.
"A woman's lecture bureau is now being
established, in charge of the national Pres
ident and Corresponding Secretary at 661
LaSalle street, Chicago, with good pros
poets of great usefulness.
The largest of our enterprises, the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, continues to hold on it's way rejoic-
ing. Mrs. Leavitt does not think of COM
ing home as vet. She will thoroughly en-
| plore India, planting our stations at all
| eligible points; will go thence to NIadagas-
car, Africa, Asia Minor. and l know not
where besides. We must devise liberal
things for this work.
"Ihe future OF the National Temperance
Hospital, located in Chicago, is assured.
AS temperance people we must no
longer leave our interests undefended in
Washington. J suggest that this conven-
ton invite the Sons Of Temperance, Good
Templars, and the Prohibition party to
combine with us in the effort to engage a
Christian temperance lawyer at Washing
ton. who shall watch our interests as care
fully as Louis Shade 4 Co. do those of the
brewers and distillers.
IL have always been opposed to secret
societies and never more SO than to- dav.
They are relic of medieval times. and
destined to become extinct. But the Good
Templars and the Knights of Labor have
SO much i'll them that is plaiseworthy,
their secretism is SO nominal, and their
purposes so helpful that it has always
seemed to me they formed exceptions to
the general rule. | believe they will not
Always De secret even III name, but That
this useless feature will fade away and
merge into the light of common day.
In these days we feed and clothe the
poor to wisest purpose when we show
them how to feed and clothe themselves
Temperance does that. Industrial train
ing. better wages. shorter hours OF work,
co-o operation. M. itratiol--al these modern
modes Of blessing will cla!m for those who
work to bring Them TO the holy d .cl ration
from the lips OF the carpenters sou: Ye
! did il unto me- -